Those who know me have probably heard me ranting about how sick I am of the whole “news reporting” business in India which they like to call the responsible Indian media.
Since the days of Jessica Lal and Manu Sharma, the Indian media has come a long way. Often crossing the lines of what would be [...]
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Amid all the “Come on you gotta see it” and “Are you kidding me?…you don’t wanna see the film that has created records at the Golden Globe”,I finally succumbed and watched the much “raved for” Slumdog Millionaire
To be honest, I didn’t have too many expectations from the film even though the whole world was gushing [...]
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Recently while browsing through the trailers on the Apple TV, we came across the trailer for the upcoming movie ‘Chandni Chowk to China” starring Akshay Kumar and it got me excited. It’s the first time I have seen a Bollywood film’s trailer on Apple TV. The film [...]
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The new Nursery Rhyme doing the rounds after the “Satyam fiasco” -
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Raju Raju? Yes baba.
Cheating us? No baba.
Telling Lies ? No baba.
Open the balance sheet! HA HA HA!
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TUAW reported on Friday that the iPhone may be on it’s way to India this september. Gotta love the picture that they put up on their blog. The Mahatma himself endorsing Apple. I bet he would have loved to make the Macbook Air a part of his dandi march gear … yeah yeah and [...]
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I had my Indian passport renewed this week at the Indian Embassy, Washington DC. I had a little trouble finding or rather ‘confirming’ the information that I wanted. After visiting the embassy twice, I decided to write down the answers I found through the process.
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So we have finally done it…Team India, the men in blue are officially the T20 World Champs..well done boys; beating England, South Africa, Australia and Pakistan (twice actually )
After craving to watch the final moments of the match since this morning, I finally got hold of some…amazing scenes. Here’s a collection of some videos [...]
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Tagged: 20_20, cricket, india, team_india, world_cup
I have been waiting for this for a long long time, and am sure I am not the only one totally in love with the old doordarshan classic “Ye Jo Hai Zindagi” starring Shafi Inamdar, Rakesh Bedi, Satish Shah and Swaroop Sampat.
Well Ye Jo Hai Zindagi finally makes it way to VCD through Shemaroo Entertainment. [...]
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Tagged: cd_dvd, classics, india, television
All you full-time and part time scrappers who swear by Orkut, here’s something for you guys to party about – Orkut.com has been nominated as Youth Icon of the Year by MTV India for the year 2007. The nominations, as weird as they sound are -
1. Orkut.com
2. Abhishek Bachchan
3. Multimedia Cellphone
4. Rang De Basanti
5. YOU [...]
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Finally a series win abroad for Team India. Job well done guys! The last win was back in 2002 at the memorable Natwest Series in England more popular for the infamous Ganguly Shirt swirling episode. The hero not very surprisingly was Yuvraj Singh back in the 2002 final and also again here against South Africa [...]
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Tagged: cricket, india, team_india